Frank Rich's Strange Column
Frank Rich has an interesting, but ultimately shortsighted and wrongfully aimed column today:
Sarah Palin and Al Sharpton don’t ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson’s memorial service. . . . Sharpton told the singer’s children it was their daddy’s adversaries, not their daddy, who were “strange,” he was channeling the pugnacious argument the Alaska governor had made the week before. . . . Sharpton’s bashing of Jackson’s naysayers received the biggest ovation of the entire show. . . . Th[e] overwhelming majority [of the GOP] isn’t just the “base” of the Republican Party that liberals and conservatives alike tend to ghettoize as a rump backwater minority. It is the party, or pretty much what remains of it in the Barack Obama era.
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